[Cialug] Linux to the rescue!

[cialug@cialug.org]

I have to share this with fellow Linux fans.

Recently, a coworker had his hard drive fail after only 4 months (gotta love
those Maxtors!).  He and a couple others tried to get it back with XP Pro
recovery console, but failed.  Chkdsk gave up due to an unrecoverable error
after 3+ hours.  Installed XP Pro on a new drive, left the old drive in, the old
drive showed up as blank, like it had been formatted.  All was lost (according
to M$ utils).

Someone suggested a Linux rescue CD that's been floating around here.  So they
boot the rescue CD and low and behold it sees the old file system.  Amazing,
Linux can see an NTFS file system even though someone had to reverse engineer
NTFS to get it.  And it works *better* than M$ tools.  Yeah, real "innovative",
Billy boy!

--
Tim W.